51.   Having worked at the University of Chicago on the atom bomb, Kuranz witnessed the first explosion of a nuclear device at White Sands, N.M.

52.   He said the first explosion appeared to be outside the Egyptian Embassy compound while the second larger explosion came from within the walled area.

53.   In its statement after the first explosion, the army said it had rigged the building to blow in the area where the wanted men were hiding.

54.   In the first explosion, a suicide bomber detonated devices strapped to his body.

55.   Israel army radio said that several Palestinians were wounded in the first explosion.

56.   Israeli military sources confirmed that an SLA man was lightly wounded in the first explosion.

57.   Kenny Johannemann, a janitor, described seeing a man engulfed in flames at One World Trade Center just after the first explosion.

58.   Mrs. Savic said when her neighbor prepared to evacuate after the first explosion, the second knocked him against a wall and fire from the blast singed his hair.

59.   Officials agree that the first explosion, which sent the Kursk plummeting to the sea bottom, was caused by a practice torpedo.

60.   Police forces in several southern provinces have been put under maximum alert since the first explosion.